See how St. Ignatius beat St. Edward at Public Hall (video)

CLEVELAND, Ohio — St. Ignatius’ area defense group an early reside Saturday evening astatine Public Hall and Alex Mack’s six 3-pointers helped nan Wildcats clasp disconnected rival St. Edward for a 71-67 victory successful boys basketball.

See really it happened successful nan video astatine nan apical of this station and perceive from Mack, R.J. Jones, Denahi Melton and St. Ignatius coach Tom Parker.

It marked Parker’s first triumph successful nan rivalry bid since taking complete for Cam Joyce. The Wildcats, who are third successful this week’s cleveland.com Top 25, will look No. 2 St. Edward (7-1) again connected Feb. 6 connected nan Eagles’ location tribunal successful Lakewood.

On Saturday, they sewage 20 points from Mack and 17 by Jones. The Wildcats led by 10 points early successful nan 3rd quarter, pursuing 1 of Jones’ 2 steals for slam dunks. St. Edward, led by Bryan Vlosich pinch 21 points and 5 3s, rallied wrong a constituent down nan agelong successful nan 4th quarter. The Eagles besides sewage 15 points from Zymir Knox.

Melton, a sophomore constituent guard, dazzled early pinch his shot handling and scored 8 points. Sophomore guardant Carlos Vaughn added 13 points, while Keith Seide pulled down 9 rebounds pinch 2 blocks. Sophomore Kaleb Gettis blocked 4 shots for nan Eagles, while inferior guardant Mike Williams added 11 points disconnected nan bench.

St. Edward will look to rebound from its first nonaccomplishment Tuesday astatine Villa Angela-St. Joseph. St. Ignatius is disconnected until Jan. 10 astatine Centerville.

Matt Goul has covered precocious schoolhouse sports pinch immoderate assemblage and pros radiated successful since 2005 pinch a bachelor's grade from Kent State University. He has covered precocious schoolhouse hoops and shot successful Northeast...